Bulimia | Current Approaches to Treating Bulimia
Carolyn Costin, a recovered anorexic, is the author of The Eating Disorder Sourcebook and Your Dieting Daughter. She has directed several inpatient eating disorder programs.
Summary: Those who suffer from bulimia and other eating disorders should be informed of available treatment approaches and practices and choose what is best for them. There are three approaches, which may be used by clinicians individually or in combination. The first seeks to understand and treat the cause or causes of the eating disorder. The second, the most widely used so...
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Table of Contents
- Bulimia Nervosa: An Overview
- Testimony of a Recovered Female Bulimic
- Bulimia in Older Women
- Men Are Becoming More Vulnerable to Bulimia
- Adolescence: Setting the Stage for Eating Disorders
- Bulimia May Be Linked to Sexual Abuse
- Bingeing and Dieting as Methods of Coping with Pain
- Bulimia Is on the Rise Among Nonwhite Populations
- Current Approaches to Treating Bulimia
- The Role of Parents in a Child’s Recovery
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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